The company hopes to boost the latter category’s revenues to 700 million euros by 2011.A third of Agbar’s 450 million euro investment budget this year will go to Latin America, mostly to Chile, where it operates Aguas Andinas AGUAa.SN. The company also hopes to boost its presence in Cuba, Mexico and Colombia.Agbar expects its global water division, responsible for almost 80 percent of operating results in 2008, should boost revenues to 4 billion euros by 2011, up from 2 billion euros last year.Of that total, 2.6 billion euros should come from regulated water contracts and the remainder from consultancy, Simon said.The company sees its home market Spain as a mature market, although it sees opportunities in environmental services. It has dropped the idea of buying the water division of construction company Sacyr Vallehermoso (SVO.MC), after disagreeing over the price, he said.At 1516 GMT (11:16 a.m. EDT), Agbar shares were trading down 3.16 percent at 15.30 euros, compared to a 1.05-percent rise in Spain’s leading-share Ibex index .IBEX.(Reporting by Clara Vilar; Writing by Jason Webb; Editing by Judy MacInnes and Sharon Lindores)($1=.7510 Euro)(For summit blog: blogs.reuters /summits/) Cuba China Brazil Mexico.
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